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Volume 76.—Number 38. O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, January 17, 1937. Seven C
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Tucson Boys’ Chorus and authentic Southwestern stage set
tings . . . varied program designed to please everybody.
(Details in column 1.)
Compulsory School
Redistricting Rapped
Mildred L. Foreman,
III 3 Years, Dies
Funeral Monday for
Emmet Woman
EMMET — Mrs. Mildred L.
Foreman, 53, Emmet housewife,
diet! at 2 a m., Thursday, Janu
ary 10, in Atkinson Memorial
hospital. She had been ill three
years.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 10 a m., Monday, January
14, at the Methodist church in
O’Neill with Rev. Glenn Kenni
cott, church pastor, officiating.
Pallbearers were John Conard,
Robert Cole. Edward Winkler,
Mrs. Foreman . . . dies fol
lowing three-year illness.—
The Frontier Photo.
Harry Werner, Leon Beckwith
and Oliver Maring, all of the
Emmet community. Burial was
ir Prospect Hill cemetery at
O’Neill under the direction of
Biglin’s.
The late Mrs. Foreman was
born March 18, 1903, a daughter
of James Bailey and Jeanie Bill
Bailey, at Plattsmouth.
She came to Holt county in
1919 from Centerville, la., with
her parents.
On June 12. 1923, at O’Neill
she married Frank E. Foreman.
She spent all her married life
in the Emmet locality.
Survivors include: Widower—
Frank; sons—James E. of Battle
Creek and Merle L. of Emmet;
daughters—Mrs. Norma L. Har
ington of Omaha and Miss Jeanie
K of Emmet; two grandchildren:
brothers—Charles Bailey of
Dutch Mills, Ark.; John Bailey
of O’Neill and Claude Bailey of
Amarillo, Tex.; sisters — Mrs.
Grace Sparks, Miss Louise Bail
ey and Mrs. Ruth Slopeth, all
of Amarillo, Tex.
Famed Boys’ Chorus
to Present Concert
in City Tonight
The internationally-famous Tuc
son (Ariz.) Boys’ Chorus will
present a concert in authentic
Southwestern settings tonight
(Thursday) at the O’Neill public
school auditorium.
The concert will be the second
in the 1956-’57 series under the
sponsorship of the O’Neill Com
munity Concert association.
Program will be offered in four
groupings; Religious, songs of the
masters, cowboy songs and fa
mous American show tunes.
Eduardo Caso is the director of
the 30-voice unit, which is noted
for its varied program designed to
please everybody. Concert starts
at 8:15 o’clock and admission is
by membership card only.
U of N Team Places
Third at Denver
ATKINSON—A University of
Nebraska livestock judging team
placed third at the 55th National
Western stock show at Denver.
Colo., and an Atkinson man,
Lawrence Engler, is a member
of that team.
An Oklahoma team placed
first.
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An overflow crowd, represent
ing virtually every district in
Holt county, gathered Saturday
for the 16tti annual meeting of
me Holt county Rural School
Hoard association. Meeting was
held in the district courtroom at
me courthouse. _
Cnxei reason iur the large at
tendance: opposition to compul
sory school redistricting.
n was the largest crowd in
msiory to a itend an association
meeting.
Anson Closson, president, con
ducted the meeting. Other offi
cers are Ld Houska, district 213,
vice-president; Mrs. Lloyd Wha
ley, district bz, treasurer. Closson
is from district 15.
Mrs. Albert Carson acted as
secretary in the absence ot Miss
Alice t renen, Holi county super
intendent.
'the resolutions committee,
which included the officers and
nine others, submitted seven re
solutions, ail oi which were
unanimously adopted.
i>en. Frank Nelson, having
completed the first two weeks ol
the 1957 unicameral session, re
ported on senooi legislation al
ready on file and possibly other
legislation affecting schools.
Clyde Widman ot Amelia, ex
plained the purpose of the Ne
oraska Small Schools association.
After the resolutions had
been adopted, Mr. Widman said
the views of the school board
group “very nearly reflected the
views of the Nebraska Small
schools association.”
Widman said the Small School
movement is growing by “leaps
and-bounds throughout the state '.
ooth Nelson and Widman were
applauded.
Other members of the resolu
tions committee: Cletus Muff,
district 4b (chairman), Louis So
botka, district 111; Chris B. Wor
den, district 238; A. M. Beelaert,
district 88: Lawrence Ziska, dis
trict 168; Mrs. Albert Carson,
district 32; Mrs. W. J. Meusch,
district 10; Dick Clark, district
165; Harvey Krugman, district 60.
Resolutions:
"We favor the election of the
state commissioner of education
as was formerly done, rather than
having him appointed by the
state board.”
"We favor reorganization of ru
ral school districts if it is to a
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Debt Paid,
Spencer
Celebrates
Town School Heads
Burn Mortgage in
Monday Ceremony
By a "Staff Writer
SPENCER—The whole town
1 ;urned out Monday evening—rur
al patrons, too—to witness the
burning of the mortgage as mem
bers of the Spencer town school
board of education paid off all
indebtedness on the school plant.
“It’s been a long, hard pull,”
declared Clyde Fisher, who has
been a member of the board since
1C30.
“I remember we owed 66
thousand-dollars at that time.
We had dry years in those thir
ties plus a depression.
“Teachers were plentiful. We
paid the grade teachers $40 a
month and the high school teach
ers $50.
“I remember one chap who
begged for a job to teach in our
high school. The board was meet
ing with him in the bank build
ing.
“We hired him. We still keep
in touch with the man. who is
now doing well in another pro
fession. He was a cracking good
teacher, too.”
Open-house was held in con
junction with the ceremonies.
Patrons were escorted to the
various rooms. Coffee and
doughnuts were served.
Supt. Leo Marx reviewed the
curriculum changes during the
past eight years and music was
provided by the school band and
by vocalists.
The ceremony with fire took
place in the basement as board
members and Mr. Marx sur
rounded an oversized metal
! wastebasket.
The town of Spencer had been
bankrupt at one time, getting
deep into debt on paving, water
and electric projects.
The sad financial status of the
j municipality made the job of
11 he school administrators even
tougher. In 1934 the countryside
was burned up by drouth. Com
in the thirties got down to 12
cents per bushel.
“Lots of these younger fellows
don’t know what we went
through Jin those days—going
through successive drouths and
' depression at the same time,”
Fisher explained.
The board has earmarked mon
ey regularly for maintaining and
improving the school. One of the
latest improvements is a fully
equipped home economics room.
Meanwhile, the town of Spen
cer is inching its way out of debt,
i Outstanding bonds recently were
refinanced.
“It’s been a good town and will
always be a good town,” mused an
oldtimer standing by for the fire
works, “I’m glad the thing is
paid off,” he muttered as he shuf
fled outside into the snow and
: cold
ONE-THIRD ISSUED
County Treasurer J. Ed Han
cock said Wednesday that 2,710
i auto-truck licenses plates for
1957 have .been issued—approx
imately one-third of the total to
be issued.
Holt Bank Deposits
December 31, 1956
Assets Deposits Loans
O’Neill Nat’l. Bk., O’N’l. $3,853,603.18 3,529,120.12 332,958.57
First Nat’l B’k., O'Neill 3,512,938.11 3,168.863.07 276,731.49
First Nat’l B’k., Atkinson 3,314,672.08 3,019,413.88 543,727.76
Tri-Cou’y. Bank, Stuart 1,427,774.99 1,317,438.07 399,013.62
Farmers State B’k., Ewing 1,075.395.24 971,696.89 220.490 96
Chambers St. B’k, Chbrs. 843,357.03 775,121.16 269.798.72
TOTALS $14,027,740.63 12,781.653.19 2,042,721.12
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Fireworks Monday night in the Spencer school building signaled the final payoff on the
school's indebtedness. Left-to-rlght: Louis Kla^na, secretary of the board and member for 16
years; Charles Pecena, six years; Richard (Dick”) Jones, three years; Herbert Seiler, president of
the board since 1948 (he burned the paper); Clyde Fisher, 27 years and senior member; AI Koenig,
elected to the board two years ago; Supt. Leo Marx.—The Frontier Photo.
W. L. Noring, 47,
Dies at Orchard
Rites Held Tuesday
at Inman
INMAN — Funeral services
were held at 2 p.m., Tuesday,
January 15, at the Methodist
; church for William Lester Nor
' ing, 47.
Rev. Lisle Mewmaw, church
j pastor, officiated.
Music was furnished by Mi
; and Mrs. Harvey Tompkins, ac
| eompanied by Mrs. Linelle
j Tompkins at the piano.
Pallbearers were Ryan and
i Chris Reimers, Joseph Bittner.
Floyd DeLong. El win Smith and
David Morsbach.
Burial was in the Inman cem
! etery.
The late William Lester Nor
| ing was born at Inman, February
9. 1909.
He died at the home of his
! sister, Mrs. Theodore Meyers,
j at Orchard on Friday, January
11, and had been ill with influ
enza.
He was the youngest son of
the late Gilbert and Eva Fal
coner Noring.
He spent his early life at In
man, later moving to O’Neill
where he pursued the carpenter
trade. Mr. Noring was single.
For the past seven years he was
employed by the Gilg Construc
tion compan at O’Neill.
He was preceded in death by
i his parents, a sister, Mrs. Anna
Stewart; also one brother, Sam
I uel G.
Survivors include: sisters—Mrs.
Bertha Craig and Mrs. Roy
(Edith) Grubbs, both of Page,
and Mrs. Theodore (Carrie) Mey
(er of Orchard; brother—Gilbert
Noring of Pocatello, Ida.
PETTY LARCENY
Darrel Farewell of Chambers is
in Halt county jail in lieu of pay
ing a $50 fine. He was charged
with petty larceny on complaint
of Harry Kestenholtz of Inman.
Kestenholtz said Farewell had
sold horse-drawn machinery to a
junk dealer in Atkinson. The ma
chinery, which Kestenholtz iden
tified for Sheriff Leo Tom jack,
had been removed without Kes
tenholtz’s authorization from a
farm. Farewell was found guilty
Monday in Holt county court.
• Senator Nelson addresses rural school officers who overflowed the district courtroom. Seat
ed_Mr*. Albert Carson, Anson t'losson and Mrs. Lloyd Whaley.—The Frontier Photo.
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The Plaits . . . hold open-house
R. K. Platt, Wife
Married 50 Years
140 Guests Attend
Affair
CHAMBERS — Open-house
honoring the 50th wedding an
niversary of Mr. and Mrs. R.
K. Platt was held from 2 until
5'p.m., Sunday, January 13, a1
the home of the Platts’ son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs
James Platt. One hundred and
forty guests came to congratu
late the couple. ,
Mrs. Clayton Wood, the
: Platts’ daughter, came a few
! days early from Los Angeles, ;
! Calif. Others from a distance
were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Griffis
and daughter of Lincoln; Mrs.
C. C. McElvain. her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Mnnsford Cotner and son, Doug
las, of Waco and daughter, Mrs
Dean Welch and Marilyn, of
Lincoln; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Hutton, jr., and family of Cres
ton; Mr .and Mrs. Tom Hutton,
sr., of Inman; Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph McElvain and son, John
Lee, of O’Neill; Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Funk, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
McDonald and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Good, all of Ewing.
Mr. Platt’s only sister, Mrs.
Snodgrass of Lincoln, was ill
and unable to attend. A niece,
Mrs. John Leibken of Craw
ford, called them as her son was
ill and she could not be present.
Friends at Omaha, Mr. and
Mrs. William Shindler, also
phoned to offer their congratu
lations.
Mr. and Mrs. Platt were mar
ried at Adams. Ralph McElvain
of O’Neill and Mrs. C. C. McEl
vain of Waco were the only ones
present at the wedding, who al
so attended the 50th anniver
sary celebration
A beautiful four - tier cake
graced the tea table which Mrs.
Bruce Grimes served cake and
Mrs. C. V. Robertson poured.
The cake was baked by Mrs.
Leonard Peterson and decorated
by Mrs. Ralph Reese of Amelia.
Serving the ice cream were
Mrs. Darrel Gillette, Mrs. T. E.
Newhouse, Mrs. A. B. Hubbard
and Mrs. .John Honeywell.
Members of the Platt fami
lies enjoyed a family dinner at
the home of Mrs. James Platt’s
I parents, Mr. and Mrs. W A
Smith, in the evening.
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X-Ray in Operation
Till 9 Tonight
The state-owned mobile X-ray
unit will be in operation from 7
until 9 o’clock tonight (Thurs
day) at the O’Neill Youth Cen
ter. Clothes need not be remov
ed and it requires only one min
ute for a person to take advant
age of the free chest X-ray ser
vice, provided by the state de
partment of health in coopern
ation with the Holt County Tu
berculosis association.
Daily hours are 9 a.m., until
noon and 1 until 6 p.m. How
ever, the X-ray machine will
close down at 5 o’clock on Fr i
day.
By 9 o’clock Wednesday night
837 persons had availed
themselves of the use of the ma
chine. Last time the X-ray ma
chine was at O’Neill 1,312 per
sons were handled.
Volunteers from O’Neill exten
sion clubs, headed by Mrs. Rob
ert Kurtz, are performing cler
ical duties at the Center during
the machine’s stay.
The machine will be at Cham
bers, January 22-23; Inman,
January 25; Page, January 29;
Ewing,, January 31 and Febru
ary 1.
Man Admits Taking
Money from Bed;
Larceny Charged
Lester Marks, 32, Stuart ad
mitted guilt in connection with
grand larceny charges in Holt
county court Wednesday morn- I
ing and was bound over to
district court.
Marks was charged with the
theft of one hundred dollars
from the late Amos Thurlow
at Stuart several days before
Mr. Thiuiow’s death. Marks
had stopped in for a visit, he
told authorities. Money was
taken from a bed.
County Attorney William W.
Griffin said the charges would
have been petty larcency had
the theft been under one hun
dred dollars.
Library Gets Boost;
Road to Be Opened
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Room Packed for
Grattan Meeting
Members of the Grattan town
ship board were Confronted with
a full house Tuesday afternoon at
] the board’s annual meeting at the
| township library.
P. V. Hickey was appointed to
| preside.
The library board, headed by
Mrs. P. B. Harty, asked that the
library’s funds for 1957 not be re
duced from the $3,000 budget
provided a year ago, pointing to
expense in installing a new heat
ing plant completed last summer.
The library board, operating on
.56 of a mill township levy, stated
that any increase in funds during
the new year could be used for
repair and maintenance on the
building itself.
Built in 1914 at th(> rust of
Kt-thmnand-dollar■», thr build
in* now needs ‘‘pointing" of the
hrirkt and work done on the
entrance ‘both inside and out.
Two officers of the Chamber of
Commerce, Robert LaRue, presi
dent, and John Harrington, secre
! tary, and M. J. Baack, superin
tendent of the city schools, were
principal spokesmen for a large
j delegation pressing for a substan
I tial increase in tax money to be
used for library purposes.
The Chamber, LaRue said, re
commended a two-mill levy for
the library. Other groups repre
sented were St. Mary’s academy,
Simonson post 93, Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, Parent
j Teachers’ association and several
| churches.
Those present voted 25 - 10 to
j provide the library $5,000 for the
new year—an increase of $2,000
; over last year. A number of per
! sons present did not vote. This
means approximately a one-mill
! levy (maximum fixed by law is
j two mills).
A delegation of farmers and
! ranchers from southwest of O’
Neill renewed their efforts to
have a north-south road opened
and brought to specifications for
a rural mail route. The proposed
road is located five miles west of
U.S. highway 281 and runs parel
lel with the highway. Presently
the families must travel up to
five miles to their mail boxes.
The township board agreed to
pay for one-half the graveling
ind claying costs if the county
would pay for the grading and
the other half of the graveling
and claying.
Harold Burge was spokesman
l for the ranchers.
Burge and the delegation, also
township officers, met Wednes
day with the county board, which
: agreed to bear the grading costs
and one-half the graveling and
claying costs. The road, four
miles in length, will be designated
as a county road.
Township officers are: Otto
Lorenz, clerk; Albert Miller,
treasurer; John Dick, justice of
the peace. Bernard Pongratz is
retiring treasurer.
Township valuation last year
(Grattan and city of O’Neill) $5,
152,960.
Budget for the township gener
al fund will be $5,000—the same
: as last year.
Gerald E. Kaczor, 16, O’Neill high school student, gets free
chest X-ray at Youth Center. Technician Bernard Cook of Lincoln
assists.—The "Frontier Photo.
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New Route
for Hiway
20 West
O’Neill - Emmet Link
to Follow C&NW
Railroad Tracks.
Rerouting U S. highway 20 be
tween ONelll and Emmet appear*
certain.
The route won hi extend woat -
ward from the West O'Neill uimrr,
and from a point 1I4 miles weak,
of the city, parallel the Chicago &
North Western railroad traoka,
for approximately three nak*.
then veer northwesterly throe
rrules to connect with a new sec
tion of highway 20 at the north,
edge of Emmet.
Owen J. Boyles, ronmiu^iaa
secretary, has advised Holt C'oun
ty Clerk Kenneth Waring the re
routing is now in the planum*,
stage.
Under public law 027, 84U»
congress, any federal-aid high
way project involving the by
passing of or going through a city
or village, is subject to a hear
ing.
Boyle* has informed Waring
that any request* for a pub lit
hearing on the matter, prote*t
ing “economic effects”, must be
made in writing before on *r
before January 28.
The plan to reroute highway 2r
between O’Neill and Emmet date*
back to the decision to wider.
Douglas street to create the lie*,
corner in West O’Neill. Presently,.
U. S. Highways 20 and 281 turns
north at the West O’Neill corner
for 1.5 miles. Highway 20 turn*,
west at that point and 281 con
tinues northward.
The new route proposes to
through farms owned by Denier
Hitts, Ben Wayman, Edwin Way
man, Fred Fritton, J. B. Ryan es
tate, Clarence Ernst, John Dick .
additional Ryan property, Charles
Abart and Guy Cole.
The route would veer north
westerly at the district 67 school
(no longer parelleling the track*).
The highway commissionV.
plans have not been surveyed
Lifelong At'±::j
Resident Expires
ATKINSON—Funeral service*;
for Mrs. Agnes Slaymaker, 68
an Atkinson resident, were con
ducted Friday afternoon, January
11. at the Methodist church. She
died Wednesday, January 9, u?
Atkinson Memorial hospital
Rev. E. G. Hughes offic.atea
at the funeral rites and burial
was in Woodlawn cemetery. Pall
bearers were Charles Dvorak
Harry Mlinar, Clede Trobaugb
Rudolph Kubik, Car] L Smith,
sr.. and Lawrence Pacha. Soger’s
were in charge.
In May, 1956, Mrs. Slaymaker
submitted to a leg amputation
ir an Omaha hospital. Since
that time she had been conn tied
lo a wheelchair.
The late Mrs Slaymaker was
born at Atkinson, January '.1
1888—the day of Nebra nn’t
most famous blizzard—a daugh
ter of Joseph and Johanna Brun
ner Neibauer.
She married John J. Slaymak
er, a Spanish-Amcrican War
veteran, April 16, 1918. They
made their home on a ranch 1?.
miles southwest of Atkinson
Mr. Slaymaker died June 16,
1915. Mrs. Slaymaker continued
to reside on a ranch for sever
al years, moving into Atkinson
to make her home with a son.,
John.
Survivors include: Sons—John
G. and Robert O., both of At
kinson; Ray G. of Stuart; Walt
er of Lexington; daughter—Mrs
Carl (Edith) Smith, jr., of Grano
Island; 11 grandchildren; broth
ers—Fred Neibauer of Stuart
and John Neibauer of Norfolk
sister—Mrs. Anna Mark of Nor -
folk.
Rural Phone Group
Gets $477,000 Loan
The Northeast REA Telephone
company of Nebraska, with head
quarters at Hubbard, has been
granted a 477 - thousand - dollar
government loan, according to
Rep. A. L. Miller (R) of Nebras
ka's Fourth district.
Some of the money will be
used to build 159 miles of new ru
ral telephone line In Holt and
Wheeler counties. There will a)sc.
be money spent for constructing »i
dial system phone center at Bart
lett, countyseat of Wheeler coun
ty. _
Celia Locality
Snow Piled in
CELIA—Mrs. O. A. Hammer
berg, the Celia correspondent,
reports “not much news the past
week; weather too cold for any
activities that weren’t necessary.’*
The themometer has hovered neat
zero and got as low as 16 below
Wednesday night, January 9
Eight inches of snowfall wa*
reported in the community.
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